. Review of reviews and world's work. g out on paper theplanting s c li e m e for theWhittier childrens gardens,in order that the best ]>rac-tical and educational resultsmight be obtained. A large part of the secretof the future unlocking of theSoulhs vast possibilities ofwealth and culture and happiness lies in the thor-ough and contented acceptance of agriculture bythe colored race. Generally speaking, the youngcolored people of the South associate farm andplantation life with the most re[)ellent drudgeryAnd .so they look instinctively toward the gre-garious life of towns, with the accomp
. Review of reviews and world's work. g out on paper theplanting s c li e m e for theWhittier childrens gardens,in order that the best ]>rac-tical and educational resultsmight be obtained. A large part of the secretof the future unlocking of theSoulhs vast possibilities ofwealth and culture and happiness lies in the thor-ough and contented acceptance of agriculture bythe colored race. Generally speaking, the youngcolored people of the South associate farm andplantation life with the most re[)ellent drudgeryAnd .so they look instinctively toward the gre-garious life of towns, with the accompaniment ofthe good clothes and the luxuries that do not gowith tlie old tumble-down cabin of the farminglife that they have known. Nevertheless farm-ing must go on in the South, and the negro continue to do the bulk of the farm negros best chance for the advancement ofhis personal fortunes now lies in the purchase andcultivation of a piece of land. A large part of THE HARNESS SHOP. LEARNING BY DOING AT HAMPTON. 423. CLASS IN PLASTERTNO tlie mission of tlie Hampton Institute is to teachtlie young negro that it is just as fine a tiling tobe a good fanner as it is to be President of theUnited States. Besides tlie home farm immediately adjacentto the buildings of the community—a tract com-])rising 150 to 200 acres—there is another andmuch larger institute farm four or five milesaway comprising about GOO acres. The practi-cal work of carrying on these farms serves atwofold purpose. First, it enables a large num-ber of the students of the institute to pay theirway through several years of Hampton life andschooling. Second, it exemplifies the best prin-ciples and methods in tilling the soil, raisinglive-stock, gardening, fruit culture, and so surplus products of the large farm arereadily marketed in the neighboring town ofHampton and at the great hotels. Particularcare is taken that every colored boy who learnsscientific agriculture on the large scale
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